One Web site doesn’t fit all job seekers: Whenever I’m asked for my advice on the best job site for finding a job (which is about five times a week), I feel my blood pressure rise. It’s understandable that you’d want to know. It’s just that no one ever likes my answer, which is —
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Job Applicants Intelligent Questions: Can job applicants answer questions intelligently and will they ask the right questions to spark the interest of the interviewers? One of the worst mistakes currently being made by job applicants is not being prepared for an interview. It goes without saying that you will wear the appropriate clothes, try to
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It’s Time to Start Networking: First let me start off with the obvious, considering my target audience. The networking I’m going to write about has nothing to do with Ethernet or 802.11 Wi-Fi standards. The topic of this article is about the type of networking IT professionals fear the most — person-to-person networking. Most of
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Hot Jobs and Where to Find Them: The job market is picking up and there are jobs that are hot and employers in a variety of sectors that are hiring. Between now and 2014, total employment is projected to increase by 18.9 million jobs, or 13 percent. If you have the right education or training
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Jobseekers face rude reality : In their never-ending quest to hire the best and screen out the rest, it is no secret that far too many employers are often less than considerate to the runners-up. Of course, as CJJ recently reported, employers do not have a monopoly on rudeness. A growing number of inconsiderate jobseekers
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Countering Age Discrimination: Laws have been passed to make employment discrimination based on numerous factors – such as race, religion and age – illegal. Those laws have been around for awhile now, and no company can claim ignorance as an excuse. But discrimination happens – sometimes because of poor training, but too often because companies
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Workers can survive three months without their managers Bosses have just three months in which to fill middle manager vacancies before the lack of leadership and direction resulting from their absence has a detrimental effect on morale and productivity, a joint British and U.S survey has suggested. Perhaps less surprisingly, the study of 400 HR
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Follow the leader has winners, losers: As a child, you probably played follow the leader. But now that you’re grown, is that game a wise career choice? Not necessarily. Joining a former boss at a new employer turned out badly for Tom Gmitter. He became chief information officer at a Las Vegas construction company in
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Time to move on: If you don’t like your job, what are you waiting for? Start looking now. “I stayed in my position for eight months (about seven and a half months longer than I wanted to). The work was boring, it was in a field I had no experience in or desire to learn
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Retired and bored? How about a job?: Marcella Nance retired in 1996 after 24 years as an elementary school teacher with the Detroit Public Schools, and found it dull. So a year later, at the age of 63, Nance went to work for Kelly Services as a seminar coordinator for a variety of clients. “I
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Mock interviews serve as practice for the ‘real thing’ Regardless of the amount of experience, the interviewing process can be stressful, nerve-racking, and can even test one’s confidence. To combat these stresses to Marist students, Career Services provides the opportunity to participate in mock interviews as well as on-campus recruitment interview. Located on the third
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On Breaking Free from the Job Rut “I stayed in my position for eight months (about 71/2 months longer than I wanted to). The work was boring, it was in a field I had no experience in or desire to learn about … and there was a bitter and awful office manager who had the
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Using a functional resume A lot of job seekers are not sure when to use a functional resume. Many recruiters and hiring managers prefer a chronological format and may look for a reason why one is not being used. If you choose to use a functional approach, the reason should be because it is in
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Job-Offer Evaulation Checklist Evaluating job offers can be unsettling, especially if you have only a vague idea of what you want from employers. You’ll have to do a personal-needs assessment before you can judge whether an offer is right for you. Here’s a three-step process for developing your own job-offer-evaluation checklist. List the Basics These
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Resumes not just for those changing jobs Updating your resume is a good idea not only for job seekers but also for those who are currently employed. And there’s another good reason to do so, according to W. Martin Keller, a career coach and business consultant based in Western Springs. “Updating your resume also should
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